● LAUNCHED Began trading Aug 19, 2026. First distribution $0.27012, ex-dividend Sep 24, 2026. Every payment charted from that first one.
This fund is paying. Its record starts at the first check and every distribution is charted as it lands. A green LAUNCHED badge here means it's live and our launch tracker has logged it.
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What ARKY Does, Per the Filing
ARKY listed on August 19, 2026 on Cboe BZX — and it's a headline on two counts: it is ARK Invest's first income ETF ever, and it joins the autocallable category as fund #28, from issuer #11. Cathie Wood's shop is best known for betting on innovation-stock upside; ARKY monetizes those same stocks' volatility the opposite way — selling their crash risk for coupons.
Per ARK's launch materials: a portfolio of 25-50 single-stock autocallables drawn from ARK's innovation research universe (the ARKK family's hunting ground), targeting a 17.5% coupon, with coupon barriers set at 50-60% of each stock's starting price — i.e., names can fall 40-50% before coupons are at risk, cushions deeper than the category's typical 30-40%, because innovation names can fall much further, much faster. A sub-advisor actively calibrates strikes and maturities position by position, aiming to limit NAV erosion. Expense ratio 0.85%. The single-stock autocallable design pioneered by GraniteShares' suite is now being run on the market's most volatile equity universe — richer coupons, and barriers that names like these have historically been capable of reaching.
No distributions declared yet — ARKY sits on our First-Check Watch, and we'll chart every payment from the first one. The category machinery, in plain English, is in our autocallable ETF explainer.
What Nobody Can Know Yet
ARKY has paid once, so there is a short record rather than a settled one, no real yield, and no evidence of how its strategy behaves across a full cycle. One check cannot be annualised into a yield, and anyone doing it is quoting a projection. Filings also get delayed, renamed, or quietly abandoned; this page's status updates daily either way. From here we chart every payment from its very first one, free.
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Frequently Asked Questions
When did ARKY launch?
It launched Aug 19, 2026. The registration was first seen in SEC records dated Aug 19, 2026; issuers typically launch within months of filing, but filings can also stall. The status box above updates daily, and the launch tracker shows everything else on the runway.
What will ARKY pay?
It has paid once. The first was $0.27012, ex-dividend Sep 24, 2026. One check is a data point, not a yield, and this page will not annualise it. The strategy is option-income, so distributions would depend on real option premiums once live.
How is ARKY different from other autocallable ETFs?
Three ways. The reference assets: ARK's innovation universe — high-volatility single names rather than indexes — which prices the 17.5% target coupon. The barriers: set at 50-60% of starting prices — 40-50% of room before coupons are at risk, deeper cushions than the category's typical 30-40%, an acknowledgment that innovation stocks can halve. And active management: a sub-advisor continuously adjusts strikes and maturities rather than following a fixed index recipe. Whether active calibration actually protects NAV better than the passive ladders is exactly what its payment record — charted here from check #1 — will eventually show.